Purpose of this sub forum
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:28 pm
Sorta meta, so I apologize for that. Anyway, sometimes I trawl through this subforum as there are often interesting discussions about non implementation specific physics stuff (like different solvers, broadphases, etc.) But I see all these Bullet specific how-to threads and I get depressed :/ So I thought I should say something.
I think the problem is that "Bullet Physics SDK Issues and Feedback" isn't a subforum title that immediately tells me that's where I should go for help with Bullet. And the "General Discussion" prefix in this subforum keys in to people's brains that this is sort of a catch-all forum. Maybe rename the "Bullet Physics SDK Issues and Feedback" forum to "General Bullet Discussions" or something like that, and this forum to "Non Bullet Specific Collision Detection and Physics R&D". Well, those names are terrible but you get the idea.
I think the problem is that "Bullet Physics SDK Issues and Feedback" isn't a subforum title that immediately tells me that's where I should go for help with Bullet. And the "General Discussion" prefix in this subforum keys in to people's brains that this is sort of a catch-all forum. Maybe rename the "Bullet Physics SDK Issues and Feedback" forum to "General Bullet Discussions" or something like that, and this forum to "Non Bullet Specific Collision Detection and Physics R&D". Well, those names are terrible but you get the idea.